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Section: Opinion
Headline: OUR VIEW: Will this gunfight ever come to an end?
Evelyn Muffler, owner of Buffalo Range Shooting Park, stands at the base of the site's "plinking pit" shooting area, which state officials believe still needs safety improvements.
May 16, 2012
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Section: LifeTimes Features
Headline: 'Double Nickel': 'The Fantasticks' will open Engle Lane's 55th season
Cast members of "The Fantasticks" rehearse "Try To Remember," the opening scene of the Community Players of Streator musical, which will debut Sunday, May 20, in the William C. Schiffbauer Center for the Performing Arts at Engle Lane in Streator. Actors include (from left) Cheyanne Sunken, Greg Tullis, Joey Beavers, Zach Scarbrough, Doug Bartelt, Kevin Alleman.
May 16, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: 'Grandma's Chicken Soup'
Centennial School fifth-grader Gwen Cunningham runs through the audience gathered for the spring concert Tuesday. Gwen played the part of Grandma while classmates sang "Grandma's Chicken Soup."
May 16, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: Safety Check
Crews from the Illinois Department of Transportation spend the early part of the week performing the annual inspection of Veterans Memorial Bridge in Ottawa.
May 16, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: Hallowell named 'Police Officer of the Year' 'It's just always what I wanted to do'
Ottawa Patrol Officer Dave Hallowell and his canine partner Nugget, a tracking bloodhound, perform a demonstration at a Jefferson Elementary School assembly focusing on Red Ribbon Week in October. Hallowell was named Ottawa's "Police Officer of the Year" at the Ottawa City Council meeting Tuesday.
May 16, 2012
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Section: Sports
Headline: Lady Irish's small ball surprises, beats Herscher
Seneca second baseman Chelsie McCormick juggles a grounder before recovering to throw out Herscher's Nicole Highland in the second inning on Tuesday in Seneca. The Lady Irish played small ball and, helped by McCormick's two bunt hits, beat the Tigers 11-1 in six innings in their Seneca Class 2A Regional semifinal.
May 15, 2012
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Section: Sports
Headline: Scrappy win for Serena
Serena's Kendra Norman beats a force out attempt at home plate with the bases loaded against Newark in the bottom of the first inning Tuesday at Newark.
May 15, 2012
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Section: Sports
Headline: Starkey's arm, Klein's bat lead WFC on to Saturday
The Woodland/Flanagan-Cornell Warriors brought home the Tri-County Conference championship this past season and then opened regional play Tuesday with a 1-0 win over Henry-Senachwine. The team will play for the regional title Saturday at 11 a.m. at Midland High School. The team includes, front row from the left, coach Lindsey Handzus, Megan Kacvinsky, Caitlyn Klein, Megan Beutke, Miranda Hakes, Addison Kirchner; back row from the left, help John Durdan, Katie Starkey, Sarah Madara, Randi Rogers, Madeleine Gillman, Madison Harms, Sara Spaniol, and coach Kim England. Not pictured is Olivia Ruff.
May 15, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: Ottawa Chamber 'Business Before Hours'
Seattle Sutton (middle) reacts to a story by Matt Skelly (right), a Boys Scouts of America executive, while Phil Harth of the Illinois Department of Employment Security listens. The trio was attending Tuesday morning's Business Before Hours event of the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce sponsored by Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating in Ottawa.
May 15, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: Union helping union
To support fellow union members affect by upcoming layoffs, members from Local United Steel Workers 657 at Illinois Cement in La Salle last week donated several boxes of food to Ottawa Glass Workers Local 19. With the food are (from left shaking hands) John Roth, president of Glass Workers 19, and Steve Turri, USW 657 treasurer, with Turri's daughter, Isabella, looking on. The USW local built up a stockpile of food for its own members during its recent contract negotiations, which ran past the deadline. When a settlement was reached, it gave the USW the opportunity to donate to a union in need. Roth said he and the 25 Glass Workers members who are to be laid off next month appreciated the donation.
May 15, 2012
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Section: Sports
Headline: RUNNING INTO HISTORY: Milton Pope girls claim IESA state championship
Milton Pope claimed the IESA Class A eighth-grade girls track team title over the weekend. The team included (kneeling) Alayna Byczynski; (second row from the left) Mackenzie Maierhofer, Randi Rohder; (back row from the left), Shanna Goins, Willow Stuedemann and Clairey Schaibley.
May 15, 2012
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Section: Sports
Headline: WFC takes care of business in regional opener
WFC pitcher Josh Long fires home Monday during the Warriors' 10-0 blanking of St. Anne in a regional play-in game at Woodland School. Long tossed a five-inning, one-hit shutout.
May 15, 2012
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Section: Sports
Headline: Huskers move past Newark, on to Masinelli
Serena catcher Zach Allread can't hang on to the throw long enough to get a tag on Newark's Noah Nichols as he scores a second-inning run in Marquette Class 1A Regional action at Serena on Monday. The Huskers, who advanced with an 8-3 victory, next will meet No. 1 seeded Putnam County in Wednesday's semifinals at Ottawa's Masinelli Field.
May 15, 2012
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Section: Sports
Headline: A BALL AT THE BASH
The Ottawa Xplosion 14U team brought home the championship from the Kankakee NSA Big B Bash held recently. The team defeated Bridgeview (13-3), Lincoln-Way (5-0), Plainfield (7-4), Homewood-Flossmoor (8-5) and Merrillville, Ind. (3-0) to claim the crown.
May 15, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: ICHIP program designed to help parents
The Masonic Lodge 607 visit Centennial School on Monday to implement the ICHIP program, which helps identify missing children by fingerprinting them, taking a DNA swab and giving parents a DVD to help the police. Pictured are (from left) Sgt. Nathan Guest of the Streator Police Department, Mike Rideout of Lodge 607, Herman "Bones" Bruns of Lodge 607 and Kevin McGrath of the Streator Police. The Streator Elementary School Board awarded the masons for their volunteer effort.
May 14, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: Good Samaritan kicks off festivities
Flanagan American Legion posted the flag at the flag raising ceremony at Good Samaritan Flanagan Home and presented the colors to honor its veterans. Members of the American Legion include Marvin Pomeranke, Ronnie Carls, Lester Gueldenhaar, Virgil Weers, Rudy Weichman, Ernie Theesfield and Delbert Augsburger.
May 14, 2012
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Section: LifeTimes Features
Headline: ABOUT TOWN: Quilt for life
The Park Church and Friends La Salle County Relay For Life team is raffling a quilt — recording the 16-year history of the La Salle County event — to raise funds for the fight against cancer. The drawing will be held midnight at the event set for Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16, in Streator City Park. The quilt was handcrafted by Helen Cheatham of Grand Ridge and quilted by Bonnie Clark of Marseilles. Tickets will cost $5 each or 3 for $10.
May 14, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: Motorcycle Awareness Month
Starved Rock ABATE chapter member Mary Sexton recently got a proclamation signed by Marseilles Mayor Patti Smith proclaiming May as 'Motorcycle Awareness Month." Starved Rock ABATE has distributed 41 proclamations to La Salle, Bureau and Putnam County villages, cities and County Boards to proclaim May as 'Motorcycle Awareness Month.' Starved Rock Chapter has done this to enhance and promote motorcycle safety, education, and awareness. It is ABATE's desire that many incidents can be prevented from occurring on Illinois roadways by creating awareness of sharing the roadways safely.
May 14, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: St. Michael 3rd grade visits fire station
The third graders of St. Michael the Archangel Catholic School visited the Streator Fire Station to learn about the services they provide to the community. They were given a tour of the station and were able to see the telescoping ladder truck in action.
May 14, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: Kimes student wins coloring contest
The LaSalle County Farm Bureau came to Kimes School in Streator to award Anna Nelson with the first place prize for the National Agriculture Week coloring contest. The judges of the contest were the LaSalle County Farm Bureau Young Leaders Committee (a committee made up of farmers between the ages of 18 and 35). All other students who participated in the contest received a gift certificate to Dairy Queen. In the picture from left to right are: Jeff Hartman (Manager of LaSalle County Farm Bureau) Anna Nelson (coloring contest winner) and Ron Burdon (Agriculture Literacy Coordinator).
May 14, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: ABOUT TOWN: Lions Award
At the recent Lions Club district convention in Bloomington, Seneca Lions Club member George Dennis was given a Lions of Illinois Foundation Fellow award for 58 years of membership and his community work. Pictured are (from left) Foundation Trustee Bill Foli, George Dennis, Foundation Executive Director Van Stone and Trustee George Durbin.
May 14, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: Taking Down Prints
Streator Police Sgt. Nathan Guest fingerprints Centennial School student Jordan Zavada as part of the I-CHIP program at the school Monday. I-CHIP is a statewide program and Streator Masonic Lodge 607 is responsible for the North Central part of the state. The I-CHIP is used to provide identifying information for children in case they are missing. See page A3 for related coverage.
May 14, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: 'We've proved this family is fireproof' Friends, union colleagues help South Side fire victims
Holly Andreoni swings a sledgehammer against a section of smoke-stained drywall Monday while her boyfriend, Michael Clifford, rips down rubble as they struggle to clean up their home, which was destroyed in an accidental fire April 24. The couple were joined by friends and co-workers Monday who are gutting the structure inside and out for massive remodeling in the next coming weeks.
May 14, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: Ottawa museum officials attend national convention
Christine Hasty (left), Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum board president, and Mollie Perrot (right), Museum executive director, meet Ford Bell, American Association of Museum president, at the group’s annual meeting and conference in Minneapolis.
May 13, 2012
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Section: LifeTimes Features
Headline: Musical Memories: Garage bands had fun, success in 1960s
Suburban Chicago's Shadows of Knight, who recorded the garage band hit "Gloria," live it up in the 1960s. Members include (clockwise from front) Nick Maroney, drums; Jack "Hawkeye" Daniels, guitar; Charlie Hess, bass; Jimy Sohns, lead vocals; Bob Adams, keyboards.
May 13, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: ONYX members make 5K run/walk plans
Several ONYX members gather for a quick photo following the group's recent all-member meeting. The young professionals' fourth annual 5K run/walk even on July 21 will benefit the Health Center of Eastern La Salle County.
May 13, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: Operation Snowflake coming to Ottawa
In September 2011, teens perform a dance during Operation Snowflake at the 807 Building in downtown Ottawa. Operation Snowflake is an offshoot of the national program Operation Snowball, a weekend-long conference on substance abuse for high school students. Snowflake is aimed at middle school students in grades six through eight.
May 13, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: PHOTO: Streator Postal Pickup
Streator postal carrier Jim Thompson retrieves a bag of food from a porch on his route Saturday during the Stamp Out Hunger national food drive. For the 20th consecutive year, postal workers picked up nonperishable food items donated by residents at their mailboxes. The items were to be be taken to local food pantries.
May 13, 2012
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Section: Today's News
Headline: PHOTO: Ottawa Postal Pickup
Ottawa Postal carrier Matthew McGlaughlin retrieves a bag of food from his route Saturday on Ottawa's East Side during the Stamp Out Hunger national food drive. For the 20th consecutive year, postal workers picked up nonperishable food items donated by residents at their mailboxes. The items were to be be taken to local food pantries.
May 13, 2012
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Section: Sports
Headline: Marquette rallies fall short in own tourney
Marquette leadoff hitter Jessica Jessen checks her swing Saturday during the Johnny Mac Tournament opener against Alden-Hebron. The Lady Cru lost a nail-biter in the opener and finished 0-2 for the day.
May 13, 2012
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